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First Person Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery

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ISBN-10: 0470444525

ISBN-13: 9780470444528

Edition: 2012

Authors: Craig W. LeCroy, Jane Holschuh

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Instructors are always searching for relevant case studies that can supplement their course material and increase students' understanding of topics being covered. In First Person Accounts of Mental Illness, case studies of individuals experiencing schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, substance use disorders, and other mental ailments will be provided for students studying the classification and treatment of psychopathology. All of the cases are written from the perspective of the mentally ill individual, providing readers with a unique perspective of the experience of living with a mental disorder.
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Book details

List price: $77.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 8/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.552
Language: English

Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia The Best Medicine
Recovery as Discovery
Understanding Health as a Continuum
Psychiatry and Oppression: A Personal Account of Compulsory Admission and Medical Treatment
Powerful Choices: Peer Support and Individualized Medication Self-Determination
Schizoaffective Disorder Snapshots: The First Symptoms of Psychosis
Why Having a Mental Illness is not like Having Diabetes (Anonymous..)
Mood Disorders
Depressive Disorders Depression: Disease, Loneliness, Social Isolation, Suicide, Negative Thoughts
My Confession: My Life Had Come to a Stop
Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey through Depression
I Wish I Had Gotten Help Sooner: My Struggle with Postpartum Depression
My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
Bipolar Disorder Living with the Dragon: The Long Road to Self-Mangement of Bipolar II
On Madness: A Personal Account of Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder (Anonymous..)
Random Scribblings on Bipolar Disorder
Being Bipolar: Living on Both Sides of the Coin
Anxiety Disorders
Panic Disorder You have anxiety?
Susan's Story
Phobias On the Outside Looking In
Mysophobia
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Flux
Rituals, Routines, and Recovery: Living with OCD
"It'll be Okay": How I kept Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) from Ruining my Life
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Emotional Triangle
Panic, Anxiety, PTSD, and My Experiences of Healing Through Multiple Avenues of Psychotherapy
The Demons of War are Persistent: A Personal Story of Prolonged PSTD
Personality Disorders
My Path to Recovery
A "Classic" Case of Borderline Personality Disorder
Loud in the House of Myself
Substance-Related Disorders
Goodbye Johnny Walker
Untitled
A Nurse's Journey through Loss, Addiction, and Recovery
Eating Disorders
Dying by Inches
Big Little
Binging and Purging to Stay Alive (Anonymous)
Life with an Eating Disorder
Impulse Control Disorders
The Numbers of My Obsession
Memoirs of a Compulsive Firesetter
Dan's Story (Anonymous)
Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders
Before it is Too Late
Poor Memory: A Case Report
Parkinson's: A Patient's View
Somatoform and Factitious Disorders
A Psychosomatic Study of Myself
Bigorexia: Bodybuilding & Muscle Dysmorphia (Anonymous)
Hypochondria
Dissociative Disorders
Coping Strategies
Family Talk
Fractured Mind, One Heart?
Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
Sexual Pain Disorders Vaginismus: The Blessing of Botox
The Armed Robbery Orgasm: A Lovemap Autobiography of Masochism
Gender Identity Disorders A Rose in Bloom
Time for a Good Transgender Story
Sleep Disorders
An Insomniac's Slant on Sleep
My Story of Narcolepsy
Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence
Pervasive Developmental Disorders Communication Impairment
Alien: A Story of Asperger's Syndrome
The Experience of Infantile Autism
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The Only Me That We Have Ever Known
Tic Disorders The Unwelcome Companion
Searching for Answers